Translating eco-evolutionary biology into therapy to tackle antibiotic resistance

F Sanz-García, T Gil-Gil, P Laborda, P Blanco… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance is currently one of the most important public health problems. The
golden age of antibiotic discovery ended decades ago, and new approaches are urgently …

Efflux in Gram-negative bacteria: what are the latest opportunities for drug discovery?

T Gil-Gil, P Laborda, LE Ochoa-Sánchez… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction The resistance-nodulation-division (RND) family is the most important group of
multidrug efflux pumps in Gram-negative bacteria. Their inhibition increases the …

Tackling antibiotic resistance by inducing transient and robust collateral sensitivity

S Hernando-Amado, P Laborda, JL Martínez - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Collateral sensitivity (CS) is an evolutionary trade-off traditionally linked to the mutational
acquisition of antibiotic resistance (AR). However, AR can be temporally induced, and the …

What are the missing pieces needed to stop antibiotic resistance?

JL Martínez, F Baquero - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As recognized by several international agencies, antibiotic resistance is nowadays one of
the most relevant problems for human health. While this problem was alleviated with the …

Laboratory Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria to Develop Rational Treatment Strategies

T Maeda, C Furusawa - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Laboratory evolution studies, particularly with Escherichia coli, have yielded invaluable
insights into the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Recent investigations have …

Preserving the efficacy of antibiotics to tackle antibiotic resistance

P Laborda, T Gil‐Gil, JL Martínez… - Microbial …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Different international agencies recognize that antibiotic resistance is one of the most severe
human health problems that humankind is facing. Traditionally, the introduction of new …

The role of hypermutation and collateral sensitivity in antimicrobial resistance diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations in cystic fibrosis lung infection

J Vanderwoude, S Azimi, TD Read, SP Diggle - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen which causes chronic, drug-
resistant lung infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. In this study, we explore the role of …

Collateral Sensitivity to Fosfomycin of Tobramycin-Resistant Mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is Contingent on Bacterial Genomic Background

R Genova, P Laborda, T Cuesta, JL Martínez… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding the consequences in bacterial physiology of the acquisition of drug
resistance is needed to identify and exploit the weaknesses derived from it. One of them is …